not to say acient.
Been discussing it online for a few days with several people, and most people agree, the dammage modell is old, and in a modern sim like AH, it's a shame to have a DM like it does. It's area based, you either lose everything, or nothing, a plane can take 10 20mm's in him (P38 for example) and keep flying without any trouble (say a smoking engine but working), what the other 9 20mm hits did was nothing, not one single thing unless they actually took or an aileron.
Do it in Real life, the plane will be full of holes and even though the holes might be spread out from the left wingtip to the right wingtip it won't fly well, definatly NOT be in combat status, might be able to run, but that's it. After a number of 20mm hits you've lost a huge amount of surface of the wing. Take a look at gun camera movies, how many planes do you see lose wings? I've seen one, lost half wing, and I have about 4 hours of gun cam fotage on VCR at the moment.
I don't request to have a DM like IL2, just something similair, something where putting 2 20mm in the middle of a wing doesn't alow the plane to fly normally and fight like it did before getting hit, it should SUFFER from it, it would most likely not go down. I don't mind putting 10 20's in a plane, as long as I don't have to see the plane fly and keep fighting as it did before, only difference might be an oil leak (which doesn't stop the engine for 5-10 minutes anyway).
Like I said before, it's a shame to have such a great game like AH, with updates and without doubt the most popular Online flight sim, with such a bad and old DM, the AH DM idea is somewhere around 10 years old, if not older. Difference beeing some tweaks and hit bubbles gone etc. AH's DM has remained more or less unchanged since AH's days of Beta, which is what? two and a half? three years ago?
Please HTC, if you wanna stay top notch, or "Aces High", you need more then just alot of planes and fancy eye candy with lots of debries flying around. The game need it, we need it.
